compound fracture

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   bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound

   Synonymsopen fracture

   Broaderfracture

Questions about compound fracture

What does compound fracture mean?

compound fracture means "bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound".

What is another word for compound fracture?

Close synonyms include open fracture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compound fracture a common word?

compound fracture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.